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Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: the keyclick (and screenclick) of my palmtop
so, here am i, posting to my livejournal, via my new Psion 5…
so far, this browser is not near as bad as i expected… and i am d/l’ing opera in the near future :)…
screenshots will be posted eventually…
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i stumbled on one, then was surprised to see how many were listed, and these were just titles as i looked over at our game collection, i am sure there are tons more…
Final Fantasy X (2001) (VG)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003) (VG)
Final Fantasy IX (2000) (VG)
Silent Hill (1999) (VG)
Silent Hill 2 (2001) (VG)
Grand Theft Auto III (2001) (VG)
Space Channel 5 (1999) (VG)
Space Channel 5: Part 2 (2002) (VG)
Eternal Arcadia (2000) (VG)
Grandia II (2000) (VG)
SSX Tricky (2001) (VG)
Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999) (VG)
OverBlood (1996) (VG)
X Files Game, The (1998) (VG)
Shen Mue (1999) (VG)
Bravo Music (2001) (VG)
Okage: Shadow King (2001) (VG)
Rez (2001) (VG)
Amplitude (2003) (VG)
Driver 2 (2000) (VG)
Gauntlet Dark Legacy (2001) (VG)
Kingdom Hearts (2002) (VG)
Typing of the Dead, The (2000) (VG)
Parasite Eve (1998) (VG)
Final Fantasy VII (1997) (VG)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999) (VG)
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(via GoogleBlog)
Date: 2004-01-12T10:16-06:00
Google has added more search by number features:
Area Codes, e.g. 650, bring up maps.
UPC codes, e.g. 073333531084 or 036000250015, bring up some information about the product.
Flight numbers, e.g. usair 50, provide links to flight tracking
Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers, e.g. JH4NA1157MT001832, link to a CARFAX report on what kind of car and its status.
U.S. Postal Service tracking numbers link to package status.
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Psion 5mx vs Palm Pilot and Pocket PC
a couple years old, but, still great info…
my psion 5 is in the mail right now 🙂
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101 Ways to Save the Internet [wired.com]
Where’s a superhero when you need one? The Net, which once seemed so invincible, is under attack by the forces of evil. Viruses knock servers to their knees.. Spammers hijack our inboxes. Hackers and identity thieves menace our collective security and personal privacy.
Desperate solutions range from abandoning email to requiring a license to log on. Halt, fools! The Internet’s problems stem from the same virtues that make it great: open architecture, the free flow of information, peer-to-peer cooperation, and a bias for linking strangers, not disconnecting them. Take those away and the Net might cease to infuriate us – but it will also cease to amaze us.Here’s a smarter approach: 101 proposals that harness the Net’s own superpowers to defeat its foes. Up, up, and away!
a few examples…
Build a .sex red-light district – Icann, the committee that assigns top-level Internet domains, refuses to create an adult zone that can easily be kept from kids’ eyes. Porn won’t disappear, so deal with it.
from the “Microsoft To-Do” section of the list…
Hey Steve, fire someone – Somebody’s not living up to the company’s tough talk on fixing bugs. Developers, developers, developers should be accountable, accountable, accountable.
Give away a good spam filter
Ship antivirus wizard – Why can’t the paper clip guy tell us something important, like “This message is infected with Sobig”?
Take the blame – Software license agreements that absolve you of, oh, deleting three years’ worth of email are irresponsible. Bugs are negligence, and negligence should cost you, not us.
from the “Google To-Do List”
Crawl the Internet Archive
Let us link to a page we hate without boosting its ranking
from the “Your To-Do List” section…
Switch your ISP – Some offer anti-spam and anti-virus tools and support. If your current provider won’t help you defend yourself, find another that will.
Death to fax machines – Send us an attachment instead.
Stop with the jokes – If we get the one about French military victories one more time, we’re going to come over and unplug you personally.
people who continuously forward junk to me get treated like any other spammer…
people, please, just repeat the mantra from the Earthlink Internet Hour radio show:
I will not forward forwarded email
I will not forward forwarded email
I will not forward forwarded email
Turn off your HTML email – It makes you vulnerable to viruses – and bugs us.
Tell Kelly on Geocities to take down her Macarena tribute page It’s over, Kel.
damn straight! i have written much on this subject in the past and i am sure i will write more in the future…
Celebrate diversity – With nearly every computer on the planet running Windows, Outlook, and Explorer, it’s too easy for a single virus to spread everywhere.
and, finally…
Add a “Skip All Flash Intros” option to Macromedia players
in the words of Sam Steele, “Flash is evil.”…
ok, final thought, say it with me now…
I will not forward forwarded email
I will not forward forwarded email
I will not forward forwarded email
go and do likewise…
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FREE IBM PCs FOR ALL OF UK
via Nybble
Nobody in the UK need ever pay for a personal computer again – from this week new IBM models will be delivered free of charge to any home that wants one.
US computing giant IBM is working with British start-up company Metronomy to supply a free IBM PC, which would otherwise retail for around #800, to every household in Britain. It is anticipated that around two million of the computers will be given away over the next three years, with an initial 200,000 being shipped in the first few months of 2004. The only catch is that users will be subjected to one minute of TV-style ads coming on to their screens every 20 minutes. If the user wishes, the ad break can be delayed by a maximum of five minutes to allow completion of another operation such as a secure online purchase of an airline ticket.
Initial advertisers include Churchill Insurance, part of Royal Bank of Scotland, which is using its TV ads to sell to the PC user market. In order to continue to access the new PCs, users will have to install a CD each month to update the advertising content. This will enable advertisers such as Churchill to trial a variety of ads with different types of customer. Future free software could also include the kind of bGsoftphoneb application that enables computer users to make free international telephone calls over the Internet.
and Yahoo Photos news
Paul Festa
CNET News.com
December 24, 2003, 10:25 GMT
Yahoo has eliminated storage limits on its photo site, but cut the ability to store very high-resolution pictures for free
Changes to Yahoo’s photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity.
In its ongoing effort to balance its free and paid services, Yahoo this month divided its Briefcase file storage service and its Photos storage and retail site, adjusted storage limits and restricted some downloads to paying subscribers. Previously, Yahoo lumped picture files and other files under the same storage system.
As part of that change, Yahoo eliminated its 30MB storage limit but restricted users of its free service from retrieving what it termed “really high-resolution” images — or anything above 480 by 360 pixels — unless they paid for the SBC Yahoo Internet service or Yahoo’s premium Plus service.
That restriction has riled some users, who say their only
high-resolution copies of some photos are stored on Yahoo’s servers.
“I would say I lost about 70 full-sizes images,” said Henri Dubois-Ferriere, a Yahoo subscriber in Lausanne, Switzerland. “The original versions have now been ‘kidnapped’ by Yahoo… Converting previously free services into paid services is one thing, but this is worse, because a previously free service is withdrawn with no warning, in a manner that makes users lose data they had entrusted to Yahoo.”
Yahoo countered that it had warned users of its Briefcase and Photos service changes by running top-of-the-page banner advertisements directing them to an informational page.
Those banners started running in August, Yahoo said. The company has been implementing the changes over the course of this month.
Subscribers like Dubois-Ferriere who may have missed those banners still do have a free workaround for getting their pictures back — a 60-day free trial of Yahoo Plus.
Yahoo has been tinkering with charging for its Web-based services for years. The recent elimination of the 30MB limit for photographs is the result of company research that showed that the limit was stunting use of the service, as digital photography becomes more mainstream and higher-resolution cameras come down in price.
i THINK that is good news for us, considering the panic over PSO screenshots and such that we had to go through…
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well, all the half-price books stores are having their 20% off sale, so, we hit a couple in fort worth and grabbed a few new LaserDiscs, including some of the first Criterions, all movies we care nothing about (39 Steps, The Magnificent Ambersons, High Noon, and The Third Man), but, they were only like $6 a piece and in pretty good shape…
at this point, we have mostly what we want on laser now, except a few rare ones, so, there is rarely any stuff that makes us say ‘wow’…
our collection looks a little something like this…
and that is before the new ones, which are about 15 or so… (our favorites are on the shelf, the rest are on the floor until we get some new shelves :P)
so, this latest buy brings our LaserDisc Database total to 310, and there are 10 or more that have no listing there yet, so, we need to submit the entries…
our database we keep on our Psion palmtops tracks our DVDs and LDs and it says we now have 404… sooner or later, i will put that db on the web…
we used to keep pages where we listed all our DVDs and LDs, but, when the inheritence came, we started buying them so fast it was work to keep them updated…
in other news, i am reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold and it is pretty amazing so far… i was with it word-by-word up until the 12th chapter where you build a binary calculator in your head… but, i am going to back up and come at it a bit slower (no pun intended), must have not grasped all the prerequisite knowledge or something…
anyway, damn fascinating so far…
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Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: some weird version of “god rest ye merry gentlemen”
behold the Pioneer Elite CLD-97 Reference LaserDisc Player…
it actually says “reference” on it, how cool is that… (not that you can see it in these pics…)
got it at Marvin’s Electronics in Fort Worth for $270 after tax, which is a damn good price… (btw, the guy showed me the bluebook and it is $288, so, even when not comparing to ebay prices, it is a nice deal…)
we tried parts from our DTS Toy Story, CAV Toy Story, THX Wow Disc, The Stand, and our anamorphic The Fugitive, and then we watched It’s A Wonderful Life, and so far we are extremely impressed… obviously, we wish it had AC-3 out but we are leaving our Yamaha CDV-W901 (Pioneer D503 clone) in the system and it does have it… this elite may now be our favorite player… the D704 goes over to miss mary’s corner, and that leaves our pioneer 980, our D503, both unused and another D503 at my parent’s house…
our only other complaint with the 97 is how it displays a frame during side flip and that sucks… if there is a way to disable that, i wish we would find it…
for another point on the good side, we finally get to use the 704 remote we love, we never use the 704, but, prefer the remote to any other…
so, it looks like today is movie-watching day, we picked up A Christmas Story the same day we got the It’s A Wonderful Life, a couple nice LD finds for xmas…
so, anyway, merry christmas to us!
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Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: KVIL
well, when i posted a comment at sam’s livejournal, it gave me an option to start an account, so, uh, i did… may use it, may not… miss mary would probably love one to play with…
hmm, no choice of “insidious” for the current mood…